Whale watching off Moss Landing and a dive off Pescadero Point 11-13-13

Greg Hoberg and I took his boat up to the Monterey Canyon off Moss Landing.  We first encountered a huge school of Rizzo's dolphins - perhaps a hundred or so.  Off Moss Landing we saw a couple dozen humpbacks feeding while being followed by a hundred or so (in separate groups of 30 to 40) sea lions.  What an incredible year of humpback whales it has been.

Next we cruised down to Pescadero Point in Carmel Bay.  Pescadero point gave us decent shelter from the predominantly western swell with northwesterly wind and chop.  As always Pescadero Point's rich invertebrate life was amazing and included many nudibranchs (I was shooting wide angle not macro...) and we saw lots of small lingcod and several cabezon.

 Small octopus just to the right of the orange bat star

 Treefish

Horned nudibranch

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